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August 19, 1899 |
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
XULIANG.
In the foreign settlement at Foochow the damage was bad enough in all conscience, but at Kuliang, on the top of the mountain, it was worse. There are, or were, some seventy or eighty houses very largely occupied by mission- aries, and of these probably less than a dozen have escaped more or less serious damage. Some air or seven are so badly knocked about | that no attempt is to be made to repair them. Mr. Schlee's house is besten down in a most thorough manner. Just a week before a new church had been dedicated. Now it is minus nearly the whole of the roof and the west wall, Strangely enough no one was hurt, though of course considerable discomfort was caused through having to abandon one's house in the darkness, in a very strong wind, and with the rain coming down in torrents. And then there was the consequent overcrowding of the least damaged houses, which must have been any thing but plessant.
amber as high as ten, others as low as one, the truth probably being that some men were missing, but no one knew where or how many One man was taken across the river ou Monday morning to the hospital badly injured but still alive.. A breast of the sawmills the river bank had been built up with piles and timber, and the greater part of this is gone. The premisses of the Shell Transport and Trading Co, containing case oil, etc., are within a stone's throw of the sawmills, but the damage there is very small in comparison, although the roofs are damaged and the boundary walls and fences and the band and jetties are not what they were. Next door is the new Match Factory. The damage there is alan comparatively little. The manager, Dr. Hellmann, has now had bis first | experience of typhoons and does not care if he never repeats it. He says his bed shook and jumped enough to make a man səs-sick. Higher up on the same side of the river the land is low and intersected, by creeks and is nów plentifully bestrewn with junka and sam-
PAGODA. ISLAND AND ANCHORAGE. pann of all shapes and sizes. The foreign hongs on the Nantai (or right) side of the river have
At Pagoda the principal sufferers were the all suffered more or less. Messrs. Siemssen andenst in the occupation of the French employes. new quarters and church attached to the Ar- Kroho have their wharf damaged and slight At Sharp Peak there was no damage worth injuries to the house, Messrs. Gibb. Livings- mentioning. ton Co's, the Customs North Godown, Messrs. Turner and Co's. and Messrs. Brant and Co's, all show signs of more or less rough usaga. The Custom House has suffered rather badly, the roof on the weather side being pretty well stripped, plaster torn off the walls, windows blown in, etc., etc. The worst sufferers on this side are Messrs, Jardine, Matheson and Co The house is more or less damaged and the front garden is a wreck. The pontoon is still in position, bat is water-logged and the bridge connecting it with the band is strewn in pieces along the wharf. The stone wharf from the corner next the Ice House to Messrs. Gibb, Livingston and Co's is badly damaged, the stone work knocked out of place and the paving stones and ballast washed away. In the river there are three large junks lying wrecked and 'stranded.
AFFAIRS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Manila, 6th July. THE "
BURNED AND BUNK BY REBELS.
SATURNUS
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The
of our relations with the Insurrect vigilant secret service has apparently uneartheil a number of the enemy's schemes, and, socord. ingly donble guards have been plac in the toughest districts and the been warned for a moment's present there has been no unusua every effort is being made to prevent tion of the costly fires of last March and April There is reason to believe that among the thousands of natives coming in from the pro,
Manila, there are many insurrectos, sent here vinces and daily increasing the population of with the direct object of cresting trouble and inciting the citizens to an uprising. Some colour is lent to this opinion by the numerous võisates of arms and ammunition that have been made along the outposts and on the river bay. Yesterday two casoos laden with were captured at San Pedro Macati, some miles out town. The natives had the andsolty to tow them down the rivers with a launch By. ing the American fisg. As no American was to be seen on board the suspicions of the river police WEATHER IMPROVING-TROOPS PREPARING were aroused and the arrest followed, sont goal
TO MOVE.
The weather during the last week has greatly improved, and-much of the water that clogged the city streets and flooded the sountry has ran off though the rivers and creeks. Still in many places there are swift flowing streams where month ago roads existed. If the rain holds on a few days longer it will be possible for the troops to move, and in spite of the increaed dan- will be made from San Fernando on the north ger of colds and fevers it is likely that an advance and Imus on the south.
On Saturday morning one of the coasting steamers brought word to Manila of the burning of the Saturnus in San Fernando Harbour. A few days previous the Saturnus sailed from
A BANK SCANDAL, Manila for the regular run of the northern Pawnshop, which, by the way, is an influential Manuel Villaba, ex-director of the Public ports, carrying a number of passengers and a institution, and Juan Leon y Garcia, the pre fair sized cargo. When the ship reached Sau sent assistant treasurer, were arrested on Friday- Fernando Union she entered the harbour in the last on charges of being implicated in the usual manner dying the American flag and extensive frauds that have recently been worked anchored close up to the shore. Part of the cargo had been discharged and preparations Luis Ramires, gathered $80,000 and fled to on the bank. Some weeks ago the cashier, were made to take on more when the captain Iloilo. After his disappearance the public was and Spanish members of the crew were taken notified of certain issues that he had stolen, prisoners by the insurgent soldiers, who swarm about all visiting ships.
and due warning was given against redeeming In very short the same. Now follows the arrest on suspicion order everything moveable was taken ashore of two officials and the case promises to be full and then the looters returned and soaked various of surprises. All parties concerned are well parts of the vessel with petroleum. The up-known in Manila and on the China coast. Aguinaldo's followers, as they were in bad straits in this part. Considerable metal was taken off and it is reported that several thous and dollars in the ship's safe were seized. The flag was lowered and the ship was left with only
Among the foreign-owned oraft the Telegraph Co's house-boat seems to have fared the worst. In the forenoon of Saturday she was sent into the Ice House creek for safety, where she was moored with three anchors. She, however, drove ashore and collided with a joss-house and s big tree. The boat proper is all right, but the port side of the house is knocked into fire-plies captured were of the utmost value to wood
Although perhaps the greater damage was done on the river and among the houses on the bund, property lying further inland did not sscape. On Sunday morning the street leading
from the Custom House wharf to Messrs. Mol-
and walls and was ankle deep in water besides, chanoff & Co's was thick with debris from roofs Other streets and roads were plentifully be- strewn with debris from houses and trees. Messes Fairburst & Co. will want the greater part of their roof renewed and there is plenty of repairs to be done on other houses in the vicinity. On the Hill the private houses that, have suffered most are Mr. Walkinshaw's, Mr. Westalla, and Mr. Consul Siemissen's: In all these cases the damage is seri-
a guard.
SMALLPOX IN THE BOUTH.
Recent reports from Negros confrm the warning of the Spanish papers in regard to the appearance of smallpox in Negros and other aguste, the two towns with which Americans of the southern islands. Bacolod and Dum.
few cases have appeard near Iloilo, but this people are reported to be considerably frightened are best acquainted, are both affected and and leaving for Iloilo and the provinces town is comparatively free. Manila a surgeo are still fighting the disease, which is always present but not so formidable as to cause
usual alarm;
the vessel without a flag and on coming nearer patrols this part of the northern coast, observed The American gunboat Pampanga, which
the Saturnus was recognized. She then thrown out very close to the shore. When the appeared to be aground and had both anchors Pampanga was within rifle range the insur: gente opened fire from the shore and over the ship's decks. The gunboat lowered a boat and
A' HOSPITAL BLOWN DOWN? » ki?. made an attempt to get a line to the ship with
During the heavy winds of last week; the the idea of boarding her and later towing her army smallpox pest house, located in a field The windows of the church were off. Suddenly natives began firing a field piece continued to tug and strain the support
out, but the hot fire of the insurgents beat them half-a-mile east of the walled city was badly blown in and the new buildings being of some description and apparently a rapid fire last it fell, carrying the patients with
shaken up by the storm. The following up for the Church Missionary Society the first ten-house are also very seriously / gun. After several attempts to locate the bat building is of the native woods withi damaged. Mind boundary walls faced with plastery and destroy it the gunboat steamed in close ter and brick walls built with mnd instead of and shelled the entrenchments on the beach mortar are no doubt first class look-see substitutes During the firing the insurgents (probably for more solid and honest work, and they are
with intent) put a few shells through the cheaper, but the merry typhoon has a knack of Saturnus and in addition set her on fire. The showing its disapproval of such structures in wreck and sunk near the beach. The crew is latest news is that the vessel was practically a manner that cannot be mistaken. The damage done to tea-room window screens, trees, gardens,
still missing. and fences is wide-spread and practically uni- versal.
The Goods are out and all round about the low lying land is under water. As yet nothing much is known of how the Chinese fared, but there is no reasonable room to doubt that their lous and discomfort must be great.
Later,
The Saturnus was one of the largest and best of MoLeod & Co.'s steamers and was employed in the coasting trade. The loss is covered by a heavy war risk.
The gunboat Yorktown has been despatched to San Fernando te shell the town.
This should not be confused with the San Fernando on the railroad where the American troops are garrisoned..
The casualties a s saw.mills are now known be four killed and seven injured.
MANT EUMOURS OF UPRISINGS.
7th July. Many dead bodies have been taken from the Manila has been threatened with all sorts of wrecks in the river, but, the exact number of 1 fires, uprisings, attacks, and numerous other lives lost will probably never be known.
unpleasant things that appear in the catalogue
and is set up on poles, to keep out the the shook to the sick men and thei Luckily the structure feel slowly medicines, the disaster is not very i
THE RECORD LAUNCH VOYAGEĮ
HONGKONG, Paddy The steam lannoh San Francisco, wh Hongkong on July 30th, reached i the morning of the 3rd inst. Cap quotes his time as three days The launch was fitted by King donald and was bought by Robinso
Manila 10tài PHILIPPINE PORTS AGAIN CLOSI
GOVERNOR, This morning General Otis closing all
of the which are
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